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International
Campaign for the Cuban Five Steps Up
HAVANA, Cuba, May 17 (acn) The international solidarity campaign
for the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly
imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998 steps up with activities
around the world.
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In the Mexican city of Merida, the president of the Cuban
Assembly of the People’s Power (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon
de Quesada, handed a letter signed by these antiterrorists
to the director of the POR ESTO! Newspaper, Mario Renato
Menendez, expressing their gratitude for the support of this
journal to their cause.
According to Granma newspaper, Alarcon also gave Menendez a
wooden piece
made by Gerardo Hernandez, who just like Ramon Labañino,
Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez have
been imprisoned for 13 years, for trying to prevent
terrorist actions against Cuba.
An exhibit of cartoons by Gerardo was inaugurated in
Maryland, in the U.S., in a house that sheltered Central
Americans persecuted in their countries.
The inauguration was attended by young Latin Americans who
grew up in the U.S., among others. Participants were given
details on the case of these men ––internationally known as
the Cuban Five––, the long terms they were sentenced to, and
the lack of real justice in the U.S.
Elsewhere, in the city of Nizhni Novgorod, in Russia,
members of the Russian Society of Friendship with Cuba
discussed new ways to express their support of the cause of
the Cuban Five, reports the website of the Cuban Foreign
Ministry (www.cubaminrex.cu).
Prensa Latina news agency also informs that participants in
the First Latin American Health Congress, held in
Montevideo, Uruguay, signed a letter demanding U.S.
president Barack Obama to release these antiterrorists
immediately.
In Ghana, Africa, a national campaign for collecting
signatures for the freedom of the Cuban Five concluded
recently. In the meantime, Iranian media outlets published
an interview with the Cuban ambassador to that nation,
William Carbo, on the case of Gerardo, Ramon, Antonio, Rene,
and Fernando.
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